Rylie's Law targeted at providing relief from seizures and more

Shown at the signing of Rylie's Law are in back (l-r) Speaker of the House Pete Schwartzkopf, Sen. Margaret Rose Henry, Gov. Jack Markell, Sen. Bethany Hall-Long, Sen. Ernie Lopez, Rep. Debra Heffernan, Rep. Stephanie Bolden, Sen. Brian Pettyjohn, Rep. Jeff Spiegelman, Rep. Michael Ramone and Rep. David Wilson. In front are Janie Maedler, Rylie Maedler, Gavin Maedler, Sean Maedler and Korban Maedler.

In a rare display of unanimity and harmony at Legislative Hall in Dover, upstate and downstate legislators from both sides of the political aisle gathered in Gov. Jack Markell’s office for the signing of SB90, also known as Rylie’s Law.

Celebrated crime writer Don Winslow continues his secret history of the War on Drugs in his disturbing and important new novel, 'The Cartel'

Updated Colorado statute allows medical marijuana on school property

Driven by his frustration with New Jersey’s restrictive medical marijuana program, Ricardo Rivera crowd-funded a research trip to Colorado. He wanted more information about extracting cannabis oil for his daughter and a new law that means sick kids can be treated with medical marijuana on school property.

Tatyana “Tuffy” Rivera is 8 years old and completely nonverbal. At 10 months old, she was diagnosed with a severe form of epilepsy called Lennox Gastaut Syndrome that can cause up to 300 seizures a day. Her father says the side effects from two dozen pharmaceuticals only made things worse.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The House on Friday passed a measure that makes several changes to the state's new recreational marijuana market, including eliminating the three-tier tax structure and replacing it with a single excise tax of 37 percent at the point of sale.

House Bill 2136 passed the House on a 59-38 vote and now heads to the Senate for consideration. An amendment that passed Friday removed language from the original bill that would have only allowed local bans on licensed marijuana businesses if approved by the jurisdiction's voters.

Louise Bostock told doctors about using the perfectly legal oil - medics then informed police and the council and a safeguarding meeting was held

A mother says she was 'treated like a criminal' for giving her brain-damaged daughter cannabis oil to stop her having seizures.

Louise Bostock was threatened with having both her children taken away from her for using the perfectly legal oil to prevent violent epileptic fits.

Louise, aged 30, from Erdington, started using the oil to try helping three-year-old Jayla, reports the Birmingham Mail.

Based on the ideology that millions of Americans are grossly addicted to marijuana, the federal government has approved $3 million to facilitate the fast-track creation of a pharmaceutical drug to treat this supposed scourge on public health.

According to a report in The Washington Times, “an estimated 4.2 million Americans are hooked on cannabis,” which has spawned a nervous desire by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to spend millions of tax dollars on the development of a medication which can turn zombie stoners back into productive members of civil society. 

CANNABIS user David Parker grew more than 50 plants which he claimed he would have mixed with butter and eaten.

The 27-year-old claimed he grew the drug for pain relief, saying he would smoke some but turn the rest into 'cannabutter' to use when cooking.

Parker pleaded guilty to producing cannabis but denied he would have sold any of the drug. However, that was not accepted by the Crown Prosecution Service and a trial of issue was held at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court today.

The judge found the defendant would have sold some of the crop but accepted some was for personal use.

Police discovered the cannabis factory after raiding the defendant's home in Sutherland Road, Longton, on April 11 last year.

One of the things the British government failed to do when it wrote up the psychoactive substance bill was check how things had worked out in two other countries which had tried it: Poland and Ireland. Quite possibly that was because officials knew that if they did so – especially in any official capacity – it would show how utterly counterproductive it would be.

As the Reitox Poland report from 2013 shows, the country's number of 'legal high related poisonings' dropped temporarily after the ban, but within three years it was above pre-ban levels.

Mary Ann Liebert, publisher of the newly launched peer-reviewed open access journalCannabis and Cannabinoid Research, strongly supports President Obama's statement that "...carefully prescribed medical use of marijuana may in fact be appropriate and we should follow the science as opposed to ideology on this issue," when asked about a pending Senate bill seeking to change federal law regarding state-legalized medical marijuana programs. Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, a fully open access journal will be the authoritative source for research, discussion, and debate. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers will publish the Journal under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) license to ensure broad dissemination and participation.